Assigned Reading on Web Design
Instructions: Read and consider the three articles described below, answer the questions given, and
submit your answers using this week's Blackboard quiz. We recommend that you first write your
answers in a separate text file, then paste them into Blackboard when you are finished.
This week only, the Blackboard quiz has no time limit and you can submit it more than once if
something goes wrong. You must complete the quiz
before 0800 on Friday
- Read Top
Ten Mistakes in Web Design.
Quiz question: Using your own words, summarize in 1-2
sentences the one web design mistake discussed in this article
that you find most annoying or see most often.
- Read
Usability 101: Introduction to Usability.
Quiz question: Using your own words, summarize in 1-2 sentences
what you found to be the most important idea in this article.
- Edward Tufte has some very interesting ideas on graphical design in general. Some of his
ideas are discussed on the web, but I highly recommend his books. For now, read this
article describing his thoughts
on web design (at a minium, read until the comments from other users start).
Quiz question: Some of Tufte's principles contradict other things you have just read.
Consider these principles, and take a look at Edward Tufte's web
site to get a feel for a design that embodies them. In a few sentences describe why you think
his ideas work (or why you think they do not).
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